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Paritosh Sen
Self Portrait |
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Born 1918, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Sen was an energetic and mercurial player in the Indian art world, attracting a dedicated following for his output not only as an accomplished artist, but also as an illustrator, a professor and a prolific writer. Significant bookmarks in his career include his founding of the Calcutta group in 1942, along with Pradosh Das Gupta, Gopal Ghose and Nirode Mazumdar, which demonstrated its prominence by holding a joint exhibition with the famed Progressive Artists' Group in Bombay in 1950. He also studied in Paris after his being in Calcutta, and had a meeting he had with the Western master, Picasso, that left such an impression on him that it can be hard to interpret his artwork without mentioning it. Later, was a recipient of the Rockefeller Fellowship grant for 1970-71.
As an artist Sen is versatile in terms of technique and experimented with oil, acrylic, watercolor and etching. He mastered his craft over the span of more than six decades, but he typically created highly stylized images with bold brushwork and geometric motifs. His subject matter generally highlighted sociopolitical residuum in caricatures, female nude drawings and self portraits.
Died 2008, Calcutta, India.
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